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Cuts don't reflect words

We just had a provincial election in BC and, one of the issues that was front and centre, was funding cuts to school districts. While cutbacks in my own district were not as drastic as in Bellevue, Washington, they are serious for our school libraries. Starting next fall, there will be no full time teacher librarians in any of the elementary or middle schools in the district and we are losing our district librarian. I wrote a letter to the editor of a local paper in response to a statement of… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on May 20, 2009 at 2:33pm — 1 Comment

School district criticized for reassigning librarians

This article resonates home with me. This is a process that we have often seen in school districts across Canada. Bellevue District is a suburb of Seattle, Washington. It is regrettable that such drastic cuts are finding there way in Washington State.

School district criticized for reassigning librarians
By LINDSAY LARIN
Bellevue Reporter Staff Writer
May 19 2009, 11:14 AM
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/bel/news/45412547.html

Added by Richard Beaudry on May 20, 2009 at 2:17pm — 1 Comment

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

For those us doing research comes the following source:

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is up to version 75 - Posted May 12th, 2009.

From the website: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on May 20, 2009 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

This new book, in what I hope is a series, was fantastic! Chapters are alternated by Grace, a human child who is dragged from her swing into the woods by a pack of wolves. And Sam, a wolf who was human and bitten, and goes between human and wolf form. Sam is one of the wolves present when Grace is attacked. But something happens when he smells her and looks into her eyes;she was the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen and he couldn't let their mauling continue and he stops it. So begins the… Continue

Added by bj neary on May 17, 2009 at 7:20pm — No Comments

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games is such a great read and it is science fiction, survival, violence, but so much more! Peeta and Katniss Everdeen are chosen to represent District 12 --- they must fight to the death with all the other participants of the other 11 districts in Panem (used to be Earth). Peeta has always been in love with Katniss but the powers that be have them act like star crossed lovers and the audience who watches by TV the whole time, JUST LOVE IT!!! The story involves psychological suspense… Continue

Added by bj neary on May 17, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)

Article in Information Today, Inc. - Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
by Sarah Milstein
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/Milstein.shtml

Added by Richard Beaudry on May 5, 2009 at 8:08pm — No Comments

Querious Queries--Please continue to participate in Pullman High School Library/Current World Problems weekly poll (until June 1st)

Pullman High School Library has been awarded a $4,000.00 grant from the Office of the Secretary of State, Washington State Library Division, funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LTSA) through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

"Querious Queries" is the title of the project developed for the grant. Our Current World Problems (CWP) students are generating a "Querious Querie" to be posted each week via our school's website and our local library's… Continue

Added by Julie Udy on May 4, 2009 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Technology Integration

Here’s an online public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.

Integrating Technology into the Classroom Using Moodle and Wikis by Nellie Deutsch…

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Added by Mark Cruthers on May 1, 2009 at 9:02pm — No Comments

How Do You Get Those Books Back~!~???

I need help writing a new newsletter request to parents for end of the year help getting Media books back...i'm tapped out of ideas and don't like my old newsletter messages.. what do you say?

also, along those same lines last year, i also go this from a Media Specialist friend of mine about end of year getting books back:

"Hey Gwyneth. I was wondering how you handled getting overdue books back at the end of the year. Any ideas for rewards/incentives?… Continue

Added by gwyneth jones on April 27, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

A reminder about work for 4/30/09

Work for this week:
One article review? (all 4 are due on or before 6/18)
2 Blog Posts – forward me the link
Monitor “ning” – network with all class members (options: Enhance your Page? Start your own Blog?)
“First Steps” Narrative

Also, 7 of you have joined ning -- I'm waiting for 3 more!

See you on Thursday.

Added by Marianne Hunter on April 27, 2009 at 11:16am — No Comments

Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS)

Hello everyone,

Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) has a great website for teaching Information Literacy skills.

Information Literacy: Learn how to identify, locate, evaluate, organise and effectively use information

1. About Information Literacy

2. Ages 9-11

3. Ages 12-14

4. Ages 14-18

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/informationliteracy/

An added source of information that is useful is Sharing Practice

1.… Continue

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 26, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

The U.N.'s World Digital Library

Hello everyone,

I am posting an article from Time online about the World Digital Library.

The U.N.'s World Digital Library
By FRANCES ROMERO Wednesday, Apr. 22, 2009
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1892916,00.html

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 24, 2009 at 1:17am — No Comments

Nancy!

Hello everyone,

Tame the Web Blog suggested that we read the Nancy comic from April 19th. I agree that is is worth reading.

Enjoy: http://comics.com/nancy/2009-04-19/

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 24, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Spring 2009 LIBM 602

It's Sunday night, and I wanted to send out a couple of reminders to those who have joined so far (and those who will, I hope, be joining us very soon).

First, if you haven't already done so, when you send in your WLMA membership form, please write on it that you are one of my students. I have sent the class roster to the WLMA Membership Chair, Pat McKinley, and she will be looking for you.

Second, be sure to subscribe to a school library or learning technologies blog… Continue

Added by Marianne Hunter on April 19, 2009 at 11:51pm — No Comments

Have your voice heard on Earth Day 2009!

Earthcast is a 24 hour broadcast held on April 22, 2009. It begins on April 22, 2009 at 00:00:00 GMT, which is 8:00pm Tuesday in my time zone, and runs until 23:00:00GMT or 7:00pm Wednesday where I live. All the live action can be heard by navigating to http://earthbridges.net/live

and more information about the Earthcast is available at… Continue

Added by Durff on April 18, 2009 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Querious Queries --Participation needed in short poll each week until June 1st

Added by Julie Udy on April 13, 2009 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Library of Congress channel on YouTube

Hello everyone,

The Library of Congress has its own channel on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress

They offer an array of media for use in schools and school libraries.

Richard

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 7, 2009 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Library hirings slow

From the Daily Iowan comes the following article.

Library hirings slow
BY MEGAN DIAL | APRIL 07, 2009 7:30 AM
http://www.dailyiowan.com/2009/04/07/Metro/10911.html

While the headline seems rather negative, the article is upbeat for the long term possibilities of new librarians.

Richard

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 7, 2009 at 1:23pm — No Comments

What’s our role as educators in copyright usage in schools?

From the Edging Ahead blog comes the following article:

April 7, 2009
Course Reflection - the logical conclusion?
Robert J. Rubis

http://edgingahead.edublogs.org/

An essay on copyright issues in an age of globalized cheating.

Richard

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 7, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

National Library Week - April 12 - 18 2009

Hello everyone,

The ALA is celebrating National Library Week April 12 - 18 2009. For more information see:

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.cfm

Richard

Added by Richard Beaudry on April 6, 2009 at 1:53pm — No Comments

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